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Epic Games said Wednesday it will not remove a direct payment feature it enabled on Apple devices recently, a move that would mean iPhone users will not receive the latest version of the popular video game “Fortnite.” A legal battle ensued after Epic rolled out its own method of in-game purchases for “Fortnite” on Apple’s …

“Mob Wives” star Drita D’Avanzo’s reputed mobster hubby was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty in Brooklyn court to being a felon in possession of a gun. D’Avanzo was in the gallery as federal Judge Rachel Kovner gave her husband, Lee D’Avanzo, a twice-convicted bank burglar, 64 months in …

Years before Hollywood power player Jon Liebman was ever chairman and CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners — which reps clients such as Brad Pitt — he was clerking for a federal judge in the courthouse where the heavily publicized Mafia Commission Trial took place in 1985. As executive producer of new Netflix docu-series “Fear City: …

ExxonMobil reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss on Friday as the coronavirus pandemic slammed demand and prices for oil. The Texas-based oil giant lost nearly $1.1 billion from April to June as COVID-19 caused a historic plunge in oil prices that hammered its production business. That came on the heels of a $610 million loss in …

T-Mobile blamed a bum fiber-optic circuit for Monday’s massive network outage that rankled customers and prompted a federal investigation. Neville Ray, the wireless carrier’s president of technology, issued a statement Tuesday explaining the cause of the failure that crippled certain voice calls and text messages for roughly 13 hours. T-Mobile engineers traced the outage to …

Federal regulators have vowed to get to the bottom of a widespread T-Mobile network outage that left customers across the country with no cell service. Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai on Monday tweeted that the FCC would be “launching an investigation.” “The T-Mobile network outage is unacceptable,” Pai wrote. “We’re demanding answers — and …

Following the premiere of MTV’s docuseries “Families of the Mafia” last week, the network was sent a cease-and-desist letter from the company that now owns “Mob Wives,” claiming copyright infringement, a source told us. Karen Gravano — the daughter of “Sammy the Bull” Gravano — appears in both shows. Karen told Page Six when asked …

Charlie Ergen’s plans to build the nation’s fourth wireless network by 2023 are being thrown into doubt due to the coronavirus. Ergen, the billionaire chairman of satellite-TV company Dish Network, needs to raise about $10 billion to build a 5G network that covers 70 percent of the US population by June 2023, fulfilling his part …

Omertà doesn’t mean anything to these former mob households. In “Families of the Mafia,” a new docuseries premiering Thursday at 9 p.m. on MTV, four Staten Island broads formerly associated with La Cosa Nostra attempt to stop their children from making the same mistakes they did. Cameras followed the wiseguys over two years, which will air …

T-Mobile US said Wednesday it officially completed the merger with Sprint, solidifying its position as the No.3 wireless provider in the US. T-Mobile’s longtime chief executive John Legere is stepping down from his position effective immediately as part of the deal. Legere was originally set to leave at the end of April, with Mike Sievert, …